Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > police don't you just Love them

[andyb]

It might be worth you checking what the local Force policy is for tyres in your area.

If like mine its VDRS first, you may well of been discriminated against, ie- why for one tyre that wasnt exceptionally bad did they go straight to EFPN. If it was that bad, i would of prohibited your bike!

By the mere fact you were allowed to continue on on the bike it couldnt of been that bad! and if it was are they leaving themselves open to allowing you to continue on on a dangerous bike?

It could well of been a probationer learning how to complete a EFPN ??

This would be the route i would go down, enquire, then complain sensibly!

[Henners]

Good advice Andy - seek the facts and if something isn't fair ask for it to be examined. A polite but firm approach often works well.

[deej]

to**ers

i got caught doing 77 in a 60 (bypass)last year in my car on the way to visit my dying gran in hospital. the devon n cornwall SPEED AND SAFETY AWERENESS UNIT were parked around a corner ona small flyover

£60 n 3points but did i get any SPEED OR SAFETY AWARENESS, did i heck just the option of the fine and points, i did try to appeal but they would only accept upon the proof of death document and i wasnt bothering my uncle for that, he'd just lost his mum

ive lost all respect for the police and tony blair now, to**ers the lot of them

[Paul James]

Hey Deej you surely ain't tryin to kid us that you EVER had any respect for that idiot Tony Blair !!!! He's one of the most dangerous people in the country!!!

[Paul James]

Originally posted by Nattyboy
nearly broke the sound barrier doing 72mph in a 70, and
Nat

So what about the 10% speedo error allowance ? surely that takes you to 77mph before a nick ?

[Rocker]

Originally posted by Ian
skids I am certainly not saying we as club should do anything like that, far from it, which was why I put in the word motorcyclists. I believe people should be free to make their own choices.
I just think there is another side to the story of how we as a group (motorcyclists) are seen by non motorcyclists. Recently it has surprised me a bit when talking to non-motorcyclists who have not known of my interest in bikes; some of them really do hate us as a group. And in this day and age where the minority are brushed aside (ban of hunting with dogs) I think we perhaps need to just be aware. I think there has even been a recent Bike editorial that was saying the same sort of thing. I really do think that as a group (motorcyclists) are the best group of people you could come accross (even the gixxer boys), how many events could you get 120,000 people at without a single case of trouble? But the non motorcycling public (and non bike cops perhaps) just don't understand or see the positive, they only see the negative.

My own opinion is that loud bikes make for safer bikes; I am planning talking out my 2 catalytic convertors, putting pipes with removable baffles in so don't put me down for Mr PC.. yet.

Ian I tend to agree with you a non motorcyclist out in his/her car for the day and see 50 motorcyclist 49 of whom are riding fairly sensibly & the other riding like a complete pratt. Which do you think they will remember and tell other people about. It won't matter much to them whether the pratt is riding a Gixer a Ducati or even a Deauville to them he will be just "another bloody mad motorcyclist"
As you said earlier the number of accidents is rising even( if it is not in proportion to the extra numbers of the bikes on the road) so the powers that be put pressure on the police to be doing something about it
Just as with football supporters it is the mindless few that get noticed and spoil it for the rest of us.
Brfore anyone accuses me of being a B.O.F. I am not suggesting we all ride around as though we are taking our CBT just that we use a bit of common sense as where and when we "really enjoy" our bikes performance

[BDG]

you're talking out of you're ar$se.

some of your posts are very good, concise, witty and amusing, and some like the most recent are complete boll0cks IMHO.

Some coppers are complete ****s, but equally so i've come across some very decent coppers.

You went thru all this **** once before and got banned, don't do it again mate just for the sake of one point. You've got more to contribute than just the anti fuzz bit.

Take some chill out pills mate.

You've got some radical views at times, and love ****ging off of boring old farts with kids, (like me) but when i was your age i wasn't even married never mind had kids.

I've read your posts about european dung foo champ, time in the big house, etc. I'm sure you've got a good story to tell, but i remember my sensai preeching humility, (not really a lesson i learnt that well eirther but from one gobshite to another in a moment of rationale! chill on the police front) I look forward to my black eye when we meet.

Still like most of your contributions

nothing wrong with specials v-man

why the **** is v-man still here,hes gone back to being a complete ***** and should just **** off for good.

anyways.....
i just at the end of the day its just what mood the copper is in.

I've been pulled for having a bold tyre,just got a 7 day producer ticket to change my tyre and take it to the mot etc etc.

theres alot of good coppers out there,decent family men.Its just that one bad apple that ruins it for the whole lot.
Also i think being polite and a smile works some times.

[keefer]

i think skids should send a letter to the police asking why this was not delt with by way of a rectification notice, then get the tyre changed get the MOT and send it with the letter saying it has all been sorted,
unless you handed youre driving licence over already in which case its too late mate.

[Rocker]

I was amused coming through Bexhill on my way home from Findon.On the opposite side of the road was a van driver talking to a police officer. Behind the van was an unmarked police car with the blue lights in the grill flashing. It wasn't seeing someone caught that amused me but the T-Shirt that the guy was wearing. It had "Police" written in large letters followed by some smaller letting that I couldn't make out but I would bet next weeks wages were not complimentry. I bet the guy was thinking something along the lines of "Of the T-shirts I own why did I have to wear this one today" Even if the office had been considering letting him off with a warning I bet he didn't after that and who (with the obvious exception of one our members) could blame after coppers are human after all
Please note the last scentence is my opinion and not an invitation for certain people to post a load of messages containing a tirade of abuse about people that they don't know behind the uniform